Improvement in shoe-exhibiting devices



A. J. UPHAM. SHOE-EXHIBITING DEVICE.

No.173,694. Patented Feb. 15! 1876.

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UNITED STATES ANDREW J. UPHAM, OF STERLING, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OFTWO-THIRDS HIS PATENT QFFIGE.

RIGHT TO WILLIAM W. PRATT AND JOSIAH H. PRATT, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN SHOE-EXHIBITING DEVICES. V

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. [73,694, dated February15,1876; application filed November 18, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANDREW J. UPI-1AM, of Sterling, in the county ofWhitesides and State of lllinois, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Shoe-Exhibitors, which improvement is fully set forth inthe following specification, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings.

The object of my invention is to provide a cheap and simple device toaffix the sampleshoe to the outside of the box containing like shoes,for the double purpose of indicating the kind of shoes contained in suchbox, and also to makean exhibit of the stock, by combining in one piecea clamp which shall clasp the'shoe, and a hook by which the shoe thusclasped is suspended upon the side of the box.

Figure'l represents the combined hook and clamp. Fig. 2 shows aconnected pair of each.

Of my improvement about two sizes are needed to attach all of thedit'f'erentsized shoes. In the double one, Fig. 2, by spreading thehooks apart, one size may be adjusted to shoes of diiierent widths oftop. In using the single one, Fig. -1, the clamp is put on thefrontp'art of the leg of the shoe. The clamp may be made to be turnedeither way at right angles with the hook. The back of the hook passesclown closely to the outside of the box to the lower edge of the lid,when it is bent outward in order that the shoe may hang perpendicular.

In use, the clamp, if single, is slipped over the front edge of the legof the shoe, the hook placedupon the edge of the box, the shoe on theoutside, and the lid of the box put on. In

the double ones, Fig. 2, the clamps are placed upon both the front andrear ofthe leg of the shoe.

The device can be made very cheaply, and is made of any wire which hassuflicient elasticity to press upon the leather, very slight The boot orshoe exhibitor, made of a sin-' gle piece of wire, having a hook at oneend, bent in line, or nearly so, with the body, and

a clamp or holder upon the opposite end, at

right angles with its body and hook, substantially as shown anddescribed.

r ANDREW J. UPHAM.

Witnesses:

JOHN W. ALEXANDER, H. G. WARD.

